Small Steps Are the Fastest Way Forward: Life Beyond Agile & Scrum • Sander Hoogendoorn • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams
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Sander Hoogendoorn - CTO at iBood.com @aahoogendoorn
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ABSTRACT
Continuously delivering value in times of chaos
We live in extremely confusing times, with deadly viruses, populistic politicians, and rapidly evolving technology. Our world is changing fast. More precisely, our world is changing at an increasing speed. This makes life unplannable and unpredictable. Organizations need to adapt faster and faster, and even continuously, to keep up with new competitors that use new technologies easier, faster, and better than they do. Every aspect of how we build and deliver software changes towards smaller, shorter and faster.
During this energizing and high-paced talk, Sander Hoogendoorn, CTO at e-commerce company iBOOD, discusses COVID, the Cynefin framework, and why software development often goes so terribly wrong. He will illustrate why and how we need to stop doing projects, move beyond Scrum and other traditional agile frameworks, and drift towards continuous experimentation in small teams. Sander will touch on self-organization and autonomy, which are truly needed in these times of chaos but are a lot less easy than they look, and he will tell stories from his everyday practice as a CTO, architect, and programmer. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:53 Let's discuss quality
04:13 Technical debt
05:47 Examples
08:32 Innovators dilemma
12:21 Small steps
16:48 Small steps are the fastest way forward
26:28 Short cycles
27:34 Deliver value continuously
29:31 Infrastructure becomes code
32:50 Collectives & microteams
35:19 Fewer rules
38:20 Microteams
41:48 There are no best practices
44:28 Bounded contexts
46:30 Aggregates
49:15 Continuous deployment
49:51 Summary
51:36 Outro
Read the full abstract here:
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[@thogameskanaal]

“Too big to succeed.” Nice one!

[@allanwind295]

Best presentation that I have seen in a while. Laughed at the truth bombs.

[@papa4614]

This guy I good !!

[@josedonato9471]

This was an amazing talk. Thank you for posting this.

[@vanivari359]

12:40 not a fan of waterfalls, but of course there are a lot of "large systems" that have been build from scratch. Obviously, "large system" is a vage term, but in the context of agile i assume we are talking about a system, that was many month or years in development before it went live. An airplane is a complex system too that works and it is not created out of a smaller working system. They don't build a Cessna first and then evolve it in an agile way into an A380. Gall's Law just sucks because in its absolute form it is simply incorrect, or so vague as to be worthless (as one could always say of any single-designed system that it wasn't "complex" enough to fit the law). Another point of vagueness is the wording of "evolved from".

[@vrjb100]

When you are using cobol, you are not agile. When you cannot update your OS you are not agile.

[@vanivari359]

what? Is that a troll/joke attempt? Because if you really think that your operating system or your programming language has anything to do with "being agile", you are one of those people who use their ignorant miss-understanding to stuff by propagating false ideas.

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